Sectional Crisis: Tutoring Solution - Videos & Lessons

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The Sectional Crisis chapter of this High School U.S. History Tutoring Solution is a flexible and affordable path to learning about the sectional crisis of 1850-1861. These simple and fun video lessons are each about five minutes long and they teach all of the topics involving the sectional crisis required in a typical high school U.S. history course.

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Begin your assignment or other high school U.S. history work.
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This chapter of our high school U.S. history tutoring solution will benefit any student who is trying to learn about the sectional crisis and earn better grades. This resource can help students including those who:

Struggle with understanding the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates or any other sectional crisis topic
Have limited time for studying
Want a cost effective way to supplement their history learning
Prefer learning history visually
Find themselves failing or close to failing their sectional crisis unit
Cope with ADD or ADHD
Want to get ahead in high school U.S. history
Don't have access to their history teacher outside of class

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Learn at Your Pace: You can pause and rewatch lessons as often as you'd like, until you master the material.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the sectional tensions over slavery in the 1850s.
Describe the causes and effects of Bloody Kansas.
Learn about the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Take a look at John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry.
Understand the significance of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858.
Discuss the election of President Lincoln.
Examine the start of the Civil War.

7 Lessons in Chapter 10: Sectional Crisis: Tutoring Solution

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1. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tension Over Slavery in the 1850s

Uncle Tom's Cabin captured the plight of slaves in the 1850s like no other book. The novel, coupled with the Missouri Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Act, served to further strain the country, which was at a breaking point over the issue of slavery. This lesson details these events.

2. Bloody Kansas: Causes, Effects and Summary of Events

The events in the Kansas territory were a microcosm of the violent forces shaping the United States in the decade of the 1850s, forces that would ultimately lead to a disintegration of the Union itself. This lesson details what has come to be known as Bleeding Kansas and its impact on the issue of slavery.

3. Dred Scott v. Sanford and President Buchanan

The Dred Scott decision was one of the most important turning points in the debate over slavery in the United States. It came during the presidency of James Buchanan, a man well qualified but ill suited for the job of keeping the nation together. This lesson discusses both as we attempt to understand the dynamics that led to the American Civil War.

4. John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry: Fighting Slavery

John Brown was a man of strong convictions - so strong that he was willing to fight, to kill, and to die for them. These abolitionist beliefs led him from Kansas to Virginia, where he would pay the ultimate price. This lesson tells that story.

5. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858: Summary & Significance

In an effort to secure their own appointments to the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas squared off in a series of seven debates in 1858. Find out why Douglas might have won in the short term but Lincoln won in the long term.

6. Lincoln's Election, Southern Secession & the New Confederacy

Learn about how Abraham Lincoln's election in the contentious 1860 presidential race set off a domino effect leading to the secession of South Carolina and six other states and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

7. The Battle of Fort Sumter & the Start of the Civil War

South Carolina's attack on a U.S. military outpost triggered the American Civil War. Learn more about the Battle of Fort Sumter and the consequences of the fort's surrender to the Confederacy.

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